Apropos of Nothing in Particular…
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Rule 1 for surviving institutional decisionmaking:
never be worth more dead than alive.
That includes the concept: worth = cost avoided.
Budget crunch? That’s a slaughterin’.
What are you worth?
Comment by DougM (jackassophobe) — June 29, 2012 @ 7:47 am
As far as I’m concerned, anybody who tries to deliberately off should come with me. Can I put that in a living will?
Comment by PeggyU — June 29, 2012 @ 10:12 am
*off me
Going to get coffee now.
Comment by PeggyU — June 29, 2012 @ 10:12 am
I hate to say this, but we all die.
Medical treatment, like a house or a car, is a commercial good.
I don’t see why I should be compelled to provide a stranger with a hospital bed any more than I should have to provide a stranger a bed at the Four Seasons at Koele.
How many lifetimes of tax slavery will we compel people to endure just to pay doctors to prolong life another few months?
Comment by staghounds — June 29, 2012 @ 10:49 am
(in 2009) Medicare paid $50 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients’ lives – that’s more than the budget of the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Education.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18560_162-5711689.html
Comment by staghounds — June 29, 2012 @ 10:52 am
When Indian ladies got old ,lost their teeth so they couldn’t chew hide and couldn’t reproduce they were put in the horse pen to try to survive on their own. Men were allowed to live because they could make babies and tell the children stories about Indian history.
Comment by geezerette — June 29, 2012 @ 11:58 am
There might be a word for that
The active verb is to kervorkian.
Comment by dick, not quite dead white guy — June 29, 2012 @ 12:37 pm
As for “this and this” – it could never happen here.
A bit off topic: I saw this a few days ago, and am still having cold chills. It’s our friend, China. Remember the stories about harvesting organs from executed criminals?
This is even worse:
A Holocaust of Little Girls
“from the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), repr. in World Press Review, September 1995, p. 39″
. . .
Mei-ming has lain this way for 10 days now: tied up in urine-soaked blankets, scabs of dried mucus growing across her eyes, her face shrinking to a skull, malnutrition slowly shrivelling her two-year old body. The orphanage staff call her room the “dying room”, and they have abandoned here for the very same reasons her parents abandoned her shortly after she was born. She is a girl.”
Search for ‘china dying rooms’.
Comment by ZZMike — June 29, 2012 @ 5:26 pm